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Sometimes, We Get A Piece Of Fruit That Never Ripens.

JonesCarpeDiem
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      No, I didn't pick the one shown below. I learned a long time ago to look for a tan base beneath the netting.

      I saw cantaloupes were 33 cents a pound last week. They were hard as rocks but I very much wanted some different fruit for a change and bought one, assuming it would ripen.

      Well, my hope didn't come true. It wasn't because of anything I did,

it happened before it was mine.

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      My theory is, it was picked way too early because when I cut it open, the center was much darker than the outer flesh and had never softened. It had no flavor.  The difference between that cantaloupe being good or bad was what happened before I got it. It was out of my control until it wasn't.

      Now, your quit, your quit, is an entirely different animal.

You control it from the beginning. Don't say you don't, YOU DO!

No one else is going to be responsible for your quit so, there are no excuses. There is no one else to blame.

No One And No Thing Makes You Smoke But You!

Give It Time To Ripen. You Won't Regret It.

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.